Ol i v e n z a Si t e 2 / Te a m 2 A New Collecting Wall

Europan 13-14 Inter-Sessions Forum – Workshop Architecture to the Rhythms of City and Nature To arouse interactivity at the European level, Europan and the Junta de invited the E13 winning teams (winners and runner-up) for 4 days to consider and design sce- narios on the E13 session topic –“The Adaptable City“– applied to urban contexts in the Region of Extremadura. Three urban situations were proposed for the Workshop, all three located in 2 nearby towns – (with 2 sites) and de Alcántara. In a region like Extremadura, with almost 75% villages of less than 2,000 inhabitants, the city-nature relation is everywhere. Nothing can be done without considering the presence of the rural environment, which has generated enough activity for the urban poles to develop. Still, along the years, the influence of the countryside has gradually (if not drastically) vanished, impacting on the urban spaces which therefore were deserted. So how to regenerate the urban structure through the revitalisation of urban fragments? How to consider today the limit between city and countryside? And how to take back the urban space through new rhythms and uses?

Europan Junta de Extremadura E13 Winning Teams OLIVENZA SITE 2 // city & nature Which Limit Between City & Countryside? The site South of Olivenza includes the extensions of peripheral housing districts in direct contact with the nearby agricultural fields. The landscape looks like a flat land with green scars and is made of valleys running towards , linking the waters of Olivenza to the Atlantic sea; hills and towers act as high points “controlling” the territory until the limit of the horizon, while large “enclaves” –cloisters & arenas– are embedded in the historical limits of the bastion elements, inducing a (non) dialogue between the open agricultural land and the mostly residential outer edge of the city. The group had to develop scenarios to create an interface between build town & agriculture, without preventing the residential extension but including it into the agricultural natural landscape. Three topics rose from the reflections and subsequent questioning: the Complicity of Topography and Water – Olivenza’s permanent defence condition forced the valley-town to build up to the sky –with highpoints for control– as well as dig down to the underground –with water for survival. How to bring back the element of water as an identifying element to Olivenza?; The Limit as an “objet trouvé” – Olivenza’s existence had to rely on protective limits. Historically, it is a concentric city of defensive rings. The historical limits –walls, bastions, gates– have lost their protective role though and were converted to elements of Olivenza’s major public spaces –squares, streets and destinations like the bull fight arena. Today the outer edge of the city however is a “non-existing wall” – a result, not a plan. How to turn this accidental relation into an added value for the city and the countryside?; and 100% Coexistence and 0% Interaction – The accidental condition of the outer edge shows a purely physical proximity with a painful absence of interaction, opposing the his- torical role of the limit: the old walls were 100% interaction, physically protecting the city and guaranteeing a survival that was as substantial as water. How to re-establish the power of the limit as a connecting medium? Through a rereading of the past the three “obsessions” discovered a wonderful “already there” to offer new pathways to Olivenza’s future. A New Collecting Wall Ci t y & Na t u r e – Ma k i n g Ur b a n Li m i t s Mo r e Dy n a m i c

What if Olivenza’s unique limits became the place of a productive rendez-vous? What if we regenerated the limits’ abandoned power through a radical conversion, turning defence into welcome? What if we integrated Olivenza’s contemporary outer limit into this concept of welcome to create a new awareness about the site specificity? The historical limits physical elements –walls bastions, gates– are manipulated to become tools for a unique intervention concept: deep walls introduce the wall as an interface pro- gramme; inward bastions intensify physical and programmatic town/countryside relationships; and connecting gates form new threshold conditions, ranging from micro- to macro- scale. “Chapter IV” brilliantly acknowledges that, today, the limit has become a space beyond its own limit.

Pa r t i c i p a n t s Maïa Tü ü r (EE), Yoann Du p o u y (FR), Federico Se r c i s (IT), Ander Ba d o s Se s m a (ES), Winner in Marne-la-Vallée (FR) with “Ville N(M)ature” Winner in St-Pölten (AT) with “Ju(mp) in the Water Kiss That Frog” Winner in A Coruña (ES) with “Nice to ‘Sea’ You” Iris Ch e r v e t (FR), Pierre Ch a s t e l (FR), Runner-up in Azenha do Mar (PT) with “Second Lines” Robin So e n d e r g a a r d (NO), Winner in Saint-Brieuc (FR) with “Landscape Focus” Lucía Ma r t í n e z Ro d r í g u e z (ES), Runner-up in Bergen (NO) with “Møllendal West” Roberto Ca r l u cc i (IT), Alessandro La b r i o l a (IT), Runner-up in Santo Tirso (PT) with “3tirsolines” Co a c h : Bernd Vl a y (AT) Winner in Azenha do Mar (PT) with “Limenochora” E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP

Chapter IV A new connecting wall first quarter of 21th century

Maia Tüür (EE) / Iris Chervet (FR) / Lucía Martínez Rodríguez (ES) / Roberto Carlucci (IT) / Ander Bados Sesma (ES) / Federico Sercis (IT) Robin Soendergaard (NO) / Alessandro Labriola (IT) / Pierre Chastel (FR) / Yoann Dupouy (FR) E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF HISTORIC LIMIT CHAPTER I -14TH CENTURY

CREATING A LIMIT BY TOWERS + WALLS + GATES E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF HISTORIC LIMIT CHAPTER I - SETTLING BEYOND THE WALL

INVASION OF ARRABAL E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF HISTORIC LIMIT CHAPTER II - 15TH CENTURY

CREATING A NEW LIMIT BY WALLS + GATES IN ORDER TO ABSORB THE ARRABAL E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF HISTORIC LIMIT CHAPTER II - SETTLING BEYOND THE WALL

INVASION OF ARRABAL E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF HISTORIC LIMIT CHAPTER III - 17TH CENTURY

CREATING A NEW LIMIT BY WALLS + BASTIONS + GATES IN ORDER TO ABSORB THE ARRABAL E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF HISTORIC LIMIT CHAPTER III - SETTLING BEYOND THE WALL

INVASION OF PERIPHERIES E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF HISTORIC LIMIT CHAPTER I, II, III - TOOLS

WALL

BASTION

GATE

IDENTIFYING THE HISTORIC TOOLS E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF HISTORIC LIMIT CHAPTER I, II, III - HERITAGE OF MAJOR PUBLIC SPACES

IDENTIFYING THE IMPACT OF THE HISTORIC LIMITS ON THE ACTUEL URBAN FABRIC E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF CONTEMPORARY LIMIT CHAPTER IV - 21st CENTURY

IDENTIFYING THE INEXISTANT WALL E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF CONTEMPORARY LIMIT CHAPTER IV - TOWARD THE LANDSCAPE

IDENTIFYING THE ACTUAL RELATION TO THE LANDSCAPE E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF CONTEMPORARY LIMIT CHAPTER IV - SEQUENCE 1

BACKSTAGE E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF CONTEMPORARY LIMIT CHAPTER IV - SEQUENCE 2

CONFUSION OF USES E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF CONTEMPORARY LIMIT CHAPTER IV - SEQUENCE 3

MISSING DIALOGUE E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF CONTEMPORARY LIMIT CHAPTER IV - PROGRAMMATIC VOID

URBAN VERSUS VOID E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL READING OF CONTEMPORARY LIMIT CHAPTER IV - A WALL OF THE 21ST CENTURY ?

LIMIT = LACK OF INTERACTION E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - WORKING WITH PROGRAM

LOOKING FOR POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - LOOKING FOR TOOLS

WALL

BASTION

GATE

REINTERPRATING THE HISTORIC TOOLS E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - DEEP WALLS

Public Ground Existing Wall

Irrigation Pool

Promenade E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - INWARD BASTIONS

Underground Parking

Public Space Ground Floor Facilities

Landscape Acupuncture E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - CONNECTING GATES

Promenade “Piers”

SMALL GATES Leisure “Islands”

to Olivenza

BIG GATES Access Farmers’ Compost Collection

Water Tanks Farming

to the countryside E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - WORKING WITH THE TOOLS

DEEP INWARD CONNECTING WALLS BASTIONS GATES E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - WORKING WITH THE TOOLS

SUPERPOSITION OF DEEP WALLS, INWARD BASTIONS, AND CONNECTING GATES E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - CHAPTER V?

TESTING THE TOOLS IN A CONTEXT OF URBAN EXPANSION E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - IMPLEMENTATION

BASTION MODEL > LANDSCAPE TYPOLOGY E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - IMPLEMENTATION

MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - IMPLEMENTATION

REVEALING THE VARIOUS POTENTIALS / NETWORKS E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - IMPLEMENTATION

MORPHOLOGICAL LIMITS E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - IMPLEMENTATION

DEEP CONNECTIONS E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - IMPLEMENTATION

DIALECTIC MAP E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - IMPLEMENTATION

DIALECTIC MAP E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIMIT CHAPTER IV - RELATIONAL TRANSITIONS E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL IMPLEMENTATION CHAPTER IV - JOINING TYPOLOGIES

EXAMPLE OF IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INWARD BASTION E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL IMPLEMENTATION CHAPTER IV - OPENING WINDOWS

EXAMPLE OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DEEP WALL - SOFT INTERVENTION E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL LOOKING BACKWARD CHAPTER III - THE IMAGE OF THE CITY E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL LOOKING BACKWARD CHAPTER IV - IT JUST HAPPENED E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL LOOKING BACKWARD CHAPTER IV - LIVING CONNECTION E 13 BADAJOZ WORKSHOP / OLIVENZA SITE 2 / CHAPTER IV - A NEW CONNECTING WALL LOOKING BACKWARD CHAPTER IV